06-04-2016, 02:25 PM
(06-04-2016, 01:58 PM)rowens Wrote: I have Nirvana's Bleach on cassette tape I got in the very late '80s and most of the books of rhyming poetry I stole from the library over the last few weeks before they met their doom. If anyone ever comes to town, all the public library's poetry is in my room. I stole the nonrhyming poetry too. I also stole all the D.H. Lawrence and Dostoevsky which they actually just threw in a pile next to the trashcan. I was too late to save the Samuel Beckett, they shredded most of the Bs.Wait, they shredded books, instead of even just sold them/gave them away to other libraries? Assholes!
It took a long time to get around to weeding out the poetry books because they all looked old and nobody knew what was worth keeping. They didn't know where to begin.
Is poetry anachronistic? As long as there's something, people would want to make that something look beautiful, or be novel, or, er, both --- that is, aesthetics as a, er, force, as an idea, will never go out of style.